News Scrapbook 1956-1959

THE PAPER

"NO" On Proposition 16 November 4, 1958 General Election

Publication of the Associated Student Body College for Men Unive rsity of San Diego

Vol.I, No, 1

ALCALA PARK, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 8, 1958

PRICELESS

Student Spirit Sparkles

JOHNNY CAN READ, A F II s SAYS ASB s a

emester Starts

Students would rather read than look at pictures, even of themselves. This was the verdict of the over- whelming majority of College for Men students present at Wednes- day's Associated Student Body meeting when a vote of 130-27 decided against the publication of a 1959 yearbook. Hot debate, skillfully cooled by firefighting ASB president Tony Piazza, resulted in triumph for those who preferred semesterly publication of the academic maga- zine, Alcala, to annual produc- tion of what was called an "over- sized tourist brochure." Alcala, it was pointed out, not only gives faculty and students a chance to see their lea1·ned re- search and literary efforts pub- lished, but also contains a printed, rather than a photographic, record of all student activities during the semester. As Msgr. John L. Storm, pre- sident of the College for Men, remarked, "It is stirring to ob. serve that the University's col. leges and schools are not content with the lowlands but have so early found their way lo the scholarly elevations of Alcala_'' Marlin Young, Barry Vinyard and Don Gwaltney. Valiantly defend- ing was Alex Harper, under the inspired backroom leadership of Victor Astorga, who said later that he was "under extreme pressure" Vigorously leading the debate in opposition to a yearbook were

SCHOOL SETS TRADITIONS FOR FUTURE Something new has been added to the College for Men this semester. It's a new spirit, a quickened interest in campus activities, a strength- ened rapport between faculty and students, a tightened liai- son between the Administra- tion and the Associated Stu- dent. Body. This was the consensus of stu- dents this week as the first issue of the first College paper went to press. The very appearance of a student newspaper, the student body felt, was proof of a new spirit pe1vading the campus of the Col- lege for Men at the University of San Diego. 'l'he newly appointed director of student personnel, Fr. J. Walshe Murray, had this to say: "We're building tradition now, and the students are gradually awakening to this. The large at- tendance at student body meetings and the surge of interest in extra- curricular activities are encourag- ing signs of a new spirit in the College for Men, a spirit that should set high standards for suc- ceeding generations of students here." "After all," he added, "what we're doing now will be the things remembered for years to come." Similar confidence has been ex- Turn to P. 3, SPIRIT Students Like Brown, Want Union Shop Apathy towards work and politics was the main conclu- sion of a poll taken at the Col- lege for Men this week by the fact-finding firm of Giesing Gengler, Inc. Students of voting age were polled on the Knowland-Brown race and the right-to-work is- sue. Sen. William F. Know- land is the Republican candi- date for Governor in California; his Democrat opponen t is Atty. Gen. Edmund F. "Pat" Brown. The right-to-work iss ue is Proposition 18, which seeks to ban compulsory union membe r- ship. These were the findings of lhe poll: GOVERNOR Brown . . .... 55 Knowland .... 34 Undecided ... 26 PROPOSITION 18 48¼ 29% 23'1/r,

BISHOP BUDDY Get to Know Your Faculty Top billing on the faculty of the College for Men goes to San Diego's Bishop Charles F. Buddy, not only because he founded the University and is its president and chancellor, but also because he is an ac- tive member of the faculty. Bishop Buddy leads the Dog- ma Seminar every Tuesday night at eight o'clock in More Hall. If further justification of top billing were needed, there is the statistic that Bishop Buddy's course has the largest enrollment of any course on the whole campus. The Dogma Seminar, a course in the Philosophy of Reli- gion, has a current registration of 243 men and women. The seminar, which carries col-

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COEXISTENCE- Getting into the football spirit is easy when the Women's College throws a party to make pompons for the game. From left, Don Gilmore, Judy Bonelli, Mike Gurrola and Barbara Jordan. School Reiects 104 In Peak Enrollment The College for Men now has a versity's three other units-Col- record enrollment of 300 ful!time Jege for Women, School of Law, day students, including 38 semin- School of Theology - bring the arians, the Dean of Admissions, tolal number of fulltime students Irving W. Parker, announced this on campus to 806. week. Of 239 applications for admis- sion, 135 were accepted, Dean

lege credit, began in February, to refrain from publicly support- 1957, with 148 students in attend- ance. A year later, the total was Cost of a yearbook per student 190. This semester sees a record was figured at about $14. Alcala 243. costs $1.50. In compromise, Fr. Bi_shop Buddy, 71, comes well John B. Bremner, head of college q_uahf1ed educationally_ and orato- publications, offered to publish ncally lo ?1s professonal ros~rum. I !ndividual _mugshots of all students He won his doctorates rn ph1loso- m the spring semester Alcala for phy and. the~logy at Propaganda an additional 75 cents per copy. Fide Umvers1ty rn Rome before Post-debate consensus indicated he was 27 years old. Another gratification that at the Univer- doctorate has since been added, a sity of San Diego at least in the degree in Laws honoris causa from College for Men: Johnny could Turn to P . 3, FACULTY read. Mrs. Peck's Bad Boy On Cafeteria Strike By ROBERT VON GENGLER I torted that he could not eat in th~ Fr. Walter P. Buetzler, doc- cafeteria on Monday, Weclncsctey tor of philosophy, entered the or Friday, because his chss s.::hed- 14th day of his hunger strike ule was so packed that the trip against the USD Chuck Wa- to the_ Ad Building wa;, next to t d 1mposs1ble. gon o ay. Father Buetzlcr's strike ~ems from the new Administration ing the motion.

KFSD Gentri To Talk Here Wednesday the man who wakes up :San Di~go every week- day r,1oming over Radio KFSIJ. And he's the man who woke up San Diego laRt yea,· lo the fact that a disk jockey doesn't have to be 1,, cornball. The trade calls him Gcntri, his parents called hin, John, his wife calls hiat1 for everythi:1g, and th,:, four chil<.lrton aronnd his Lemo:-i Grove home C>tll him Daddy. He's a Fordham grad. Before comin,r to San Diego, he was with WKuK in Framingham, MahS. lf radio is better than ever, il's lhanks to Gentri. Catch him at the ASB meeting Wednesday. Meantime and thereafter, catch him Monday through FL"iJJ.y over KFSD, 6:35 a.m. to 11 a.m. He's the greatest thing since gunpow- der. Gentri will talk at the Associa- ted Studenl Body meeting next Wednesday. He's

Parker said. To help maintain high academic standards, he explained, the College for Men set a 1958 limit of 250-275 lay students. Lasl year's number was 234. The breakdown is: 110 fresh - men; 74 sophomores; 86 juniors; 39 seniors. Students al the Uni-

This message was rehye,l by Mrs. Peck to Fr. William D. Spain, administrative vice-president, who agreed that there was an excep- tion necedsary in Father Buetzler's case. Father Spain said Father Buetzler could eat free of charge at the Chuck Wagon on the thr

policy that faculty members must eat in the Ad Building Cafeteria or pay for their lunches at the Chuck Wagon. Fourteen days ago-on Sept. 24 -Father Buetzler ordered his cus- tomary egg sandwich and butter- milk from the Wagon's manager, Mrs. Mildred Peck, who informed him that money, not intclligenc~ and popularity, was the n•!W legal ttnder as far as instructors wer'! concerned. Dismayed at this attack on his lunch period, Father Buetzler re-

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A l 6, which would tax private schools, found a No vote of 100 pe r cent, thank the good Lord. poll on Proposition

FR. BUETZLER